The best way to get this affect would be to put on wheels with a wider offset. The BBS Rk I and IIs have some of the widest out there in Saab applications.

If you're set on spacers, there are a couple of companies out there that make them. Check out Eibach's offerings.

 

if you put lowering springs on a 9-5 would there be a wheel spacer to big that would cause rubbing on the inner fender.

 

Then you get a fender roller.


Spacers is on my long list for my car.

 

Spacers is on my long list for my car.

i might know a guy ill PM him and see what he can do, GB any one ????

just googled fender roller, that looks a little riskay if you ask me. i guess i'd have to see someone use it first.

it ant shit, i had done it on both of my G20's

 

just googled fender roller, that looks a little riskay if you ask me. i guess i'd have to see someone use it first.

 

Hundreds of thousands of people have done it.

Done right, it's just fine.

Shouldn't be too hard to make or have made. About how much were you wanting to space it out?

In my case, I was going to wait until I get my RK2's on, then see.

I'm thinking about 10 in the front and 20+ in the rear.

Eew:

That looks kinda weak, IMHO.

Quite a few companies make these, but not many (that I am aware of) use them on saabs.

 

Shouldn't be too hard to make or have made. About how much were you wanting to space it out?

 

when are you gonna get your rkII's on?

 

Spring.

 

I guess another good question is, who makes longer wheel bolts for our cars?

 

Thats the hard part! Can't make those easily.

 

are you planning on running spacers even with the wider offset of the rkII's?

 

They HAVE to be out there.

Someone must sell them.

 

When I was looking into the Porsche brake upgrade, Mr. Saunders helped me out with some info:

"You'll need longer lugbolts, which I got from a place in Cali called Prestige Wheel"

I never did much research beyond that. I have seen bolts on ebay that you could pitch match and try out, but that's iffy.

I am *pretty* sure the wheel bolts that came with all of the NESA fondmetal wheels are 2mm longer than regular. I think this is the same length the original BBS came with. Doesn't help too much with a spacer though.

 

2mm not so much, but bolt ons might be a better option like this

 

I would rather do hub-centric and just use longer bolts. Yes, more stress on longer bolts, but I'd rather add 5mm onto a bolt then rely on only 5mm of thread depth for a bolt to hold.

 

how bout both !!!!!!

 

How do you do both without drilling more holes?

 

the spacer would have 10 whole's 5 of them would be threaded and the other 5 would be taperd so that the nut/stud would still sit flat. this might be a better shot

 

How thick are those?

 

they can be made thicker, like 20 - 30mm i was thinking, that pic was just for a sample

 

My point is that that style of spacer isn't often available in a 5 or sometimes 10 mm thickness. That is just too thin for them to be strong.

 

at that thickness they would be slip ons

 

And where longer wheel bolts would be nice. Ah, what a nice circle we have made in this discussion...

 

Round, like the spacers.

I can see the advantages in both...

It looks like for our cars, you will have to use both styles.

On my 9-3, the front wheel sits pretty well...5-10mm would be enough to make things look *really* nice. Or you could just leave them. The wheel is almost flush with the fender as is.



On the rear, it's a whole new ball game.

 

i think a 7mm of front and a 20mm(bolt on) in the back, that would look best (for oem wheels )

 

Yeah, that's kinda what I am leaning towards.

 

well if the look of the BBS's are the look that is trying to be matched i can do some math and see what i can come up with, what is the offset of the oem 95/93 wheels ? and they are 7 in wide right

 

I think they are...

For the record, I have the BBS RK2's waiting to go on.

I may have one of my good ones mounted up with my summer rubber next week and take some measurements.

 

Ok heres some interesting stuff. Found this in the WIS:

So wheel bolt is M12 x 1.5 then found this site:

http://www.eurosportacc.com/hr_wheel_bolts_studs.htm

Looks like they have any length you need.

Tboy